Short Bio
Dr. Fahad Saeed is Full Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University (FIU), Miami FL. He received his PhD in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 2010. He was trained as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Fellow in the Systems Biology Center at National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda MD from Aug 2010 to January 2014 respectively, under the supervision of Mark Knepper. Prior to joining FIU, Prof. Saeed was a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science at Western Michigan University (WMU), Kalamazoo Michigan since Jan 2014. He was tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at WMU in August 2018. He has served as a visiting scientist in world-renowned prestigious institutions such as Department of Bio-Systems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE), ETH Zurich, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and Epithelial Systems Biology Laboratory (ESBL) at National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. Saeed’s research interests are at the intersection of machine-learning, high performance computing and real-world applications, especially in computational biology. He is the director of Precision Computational Health and Biomedical Data Science Lab (Saeed Lab) at FIU. His lab develops machine-learning models, combined with high-performance computing, and data science approaches, to study the functional genomics (proteomics), and organization of the human brain and its function in the context of prediction, diagnosis and characterization of biomarkers specific to disorders such as epilepsy, ADHD, Autism, and Alzheimer’s. His research has been funded by NVIDIA, Intel/Altera, Xilinx, National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) including the highly prestigious NSF CAREER, and NIH R01 (and R01-equivalent R35 MIRA) grants. More information about his lab research activities can be found at https://pcdslab.github.io/.
He also maintains a webpage at https://prof-s.github.io
Complete list of publications is available at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IPXv-GQAAAAJ&hl=en
Honors and Awards
- Excellence in Research and Creative Activities Award, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Science (KFSCIS), FIU, Dec 2024
- FIU Top Scholar, Research and Creative Activities , Florida International University, Sept 2022 CEC News Page
- Keynote Speaker at the 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB). More info here: BiCOB-2022 KeyNote Certificate
- Excellence in Applied Research Award, School of Computing and Information Science (SCIS), Florida International University (FIU), Dec 2020
- Distinguished Research and Creative Scholarship Award, Office of Vice President of Research WMU, Feb 2018
- NSF CAREER Award, 2017-2022
- ACM Senior Member, May 2017
- Outstanding New Researcher Award, College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), Western Michigan University, Jan 2016 (1 faculty member gets the award in a single year for the entire college consisting of 7 academic departments)
- IEEE Senior Member, March 2015
- NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award, Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
- Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE), National Institutes of Health (NIH), June 2012 (Official award ceremony and US\$1000 travel grant)
- Travel award from Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Summers 2009.
- Recipient of Think Swiss Scholarship, by the Government of Switzerland for two years (2007 and 2008).
- Travel award from D-BSSE ETH Zurich, Summers 2008.
RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS
Machine-Learning for health and biomedical data, proteomics, neuroinformatics, computational systems biology, high-performance computing
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
Research Fellowship, Computational Systems Biology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD. (2011-2014)
Postdoctoral Training, Computational Proteomics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD. (2010-2011)
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL USA. (2006-2010)
BSc Engg, Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. (2002-2006)
Research
[Method Development] Predicting and Characterizing Alzheimer's Disease & Related Dementias
[analysis] Compressive and reductive analysis of genomic and proteomics data
[method-development] HPC Engine for Mass Spectrometry based Omics Data
[dataset] MLSPred-Bench: Reference EEG Benchmark for Prediction of Epileptic Seizures
[Method Development] Predicting Epileptic Seizures
[Method Development] ML Ecosystem for Mass Spectrometry Data
[Method Development] Characterization and diagnosis of Autism Spectrum
Papers
Overcoming Site Variability in Multisite fMRI Studies: An Autoencoder Framework for Enhanced Generalizability of Machine Learning Models
MLSPred-Bench: Transforming Electroencephalography (EEG) Datasets into Machine Learning-Ready Seizure Prediction Benchmarks
Machine-learning models for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis using neuroimaging data: survey, reproducibility, and generalizability evaluation
TA‐RNN: an Attention‐based Time‐aware Recurrent Neural Network Architecture to Predict Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease-associated gene ranking using PhenoGeneRanker
Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis using gray matter of T1-weighted sMRI data and vision transformer
Predicting Individual’s Cognitive Performance Through Multi-Omics Blood Data Using Hierarchical Input Neural Network - HINN
Robustness of ML-Based Seizure Prediction Using Noisy EEG Data From Limited Channels
Lightweight Transformer exhibits comparable performance to LLMs for Seizure Prediction: A case for light-weight models for EEG data
Utilizing Pretrained Vision Transfomers and Large Language Models for Epileptic Seizure Prediction
Predicting peptide properties from mass spectrometry data using deep attention-based multitask network and uncertainty quantification
PVTAD: Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Using Pyramid Vision Transformer Applied to White Matter of T1-Weighted Structural MRI Data
Making MS Omics Data ML-Ready: SpeCollate Protocols
Heterogeneity Aware Distributed Machine Learning at the Wireless Edge for Health IoT Applications: An EEG Data Case Study
Communication Evaluation of a Wireless 4-Channel Wearable EEG for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) and Healthcare Applications
Systems and methods for matching mass spectrometry data with a peptide database
Statistical and Machine Learning Analysis of the Human Brain Functional Network in a Multi-Site Resting-State Functional MRI Database Framework
Q-CASA Invited Speakers Quantum-Centric Supercomputing Strategies for Neuroscience problems: Challenges and Progress
PPAD: a deep learning architecture to predict progression of Alzheimer’s disease
High Performance Computing Algorithms for Accelerating Peptide Identification from Mass-Spectrometry Data Using Heterogeneous Supercomputers
GPU-acceleration of the distributed-memory database peptide search of mass spectrometry data
Energy Efficient AI/ML based Continuous Monitoring at the Edge: ECG and EEG Case Study
Description of Dissolved Organic Matter Transformational Networks at the Molecular Level
Confounding Effects on the Performance of Machine Learning Analysis of Static Functional Connectivity Computed from rs-fMRI Multi-site Data
ASD-GResTM: Deep Learning Framework for ASD classification using Gramian Angular Field
22nd IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB 2023)
Unsupervised structural classification of dissolved organic matter based on fragmentation pathways
Systems and methods for peptide identification
Systems and methods for measuring similarity between mass spectra and peptides
Systems And Methods For Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder Using fMRI Data
SPERTL: Epileptic Seizure Prediction using EEG with ResNets and Transfer Learning
Re-configurable Hardware for Computational Proteomics
Need for High-Performance Computing for MS-Based Omics Data Analysis
Molecular level characterization of DOM along a freshwater-to-estuarine coastal gradient in the Florida Everglades
Machine-Learning and the Future of HPC for MS-Based Omics
Introduction to Mass Spectrometry Data
High-Performance Computing Strategy Using Distributed-Memory Supercomputers
High-Performance Algorithms for Mass Spectrometry-Based Omics
G-MSR: A GPU-Based Dimensionality Reduction Algorithm
Fast Spectral Pre-processing for Big MS Data
Existing HPC Methods and the Communication Lower Bounds for Distributed-Memory Computations for Mass Spectrometry-Based Omics Data
Computational CPU-GPU Template for Pre-processing of Floating-Point MS Data
Communication lower-bounds for distributed-memory computations for mass spectrometry based omics data
Classification of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using rs-fMRI data and Graph Convolutional Networks
Biomedical IoT: Enabling Technologies, Architectural Elements, Challenges, and Future Directions
A Easy to Use Generalized Template to Support Development of GPU Algorithms
TurboBFS: GPU Based Breadth-First Search (BFS) Algorithms in the Language of Linear Algebra
TurboBC: A Memory Efficient and Scalable GPU Based Betweenness Centrality Algorithm in the Language of Linear Algebra
SpeCollate: Deep cross-modal similarity network for mass spectrometry data based peptide deductions
Source data: high performance computing framework for tera-scale database search of mass spectrometry data
Simulation Testbed for Evaluating Distributed Querying and Searching of Mass Spectrometry Big Data in a Network-based Infrastructure
Search feasibility in distributed MS-proteomics big data
Real-time peptide identification from high-throughput mass-spectrometry data
Methods for Proteogenomics Data Analysis, Challenges, and Scalability Bottlenecks: A Survey
Machine Learning methods for diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder using functional and structural MRI: A Survey
High performance computing framework for tera-scale database search of mass spectrometry data
HiCOPS: High Performance Computing Framework for Tera-Scale Database Search of Mass Spectrometry based Omics Data
Graph Theoretic Approach for the Analysis of Comprehensive Mass-Spectrometry (MS/MS) Data of Dissolved Organic Matter
Explainable and scalable machine learning algorithms for detection of autism spectrum disorder using fMRI data
DeepCOVIDNet: Deep Convolutional Neural Network for COVID-19 Detection from Chest Radiographic Images
Communication-avoiding micro-architecture to compute Xcorr scores for peptide identification
Benchmarking mass spectrometry based proteomics algorithms using a simulated database
ASD-SAENet: a sparse autoencoder, and deep-neural network model for detecting autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using fMRI data
A Multi-Factorial Assessment of Functional Human Autistic Spectrum Brain Network Analysis
ASD-DiagNet: A Hybrid Learning Approach for Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using fMRI Data
NGS-Integrator: An efficient tool for combining multiple NGS data tracks using minimum Bayes’ factors
Methods and systems for compressing data
Federated learning: A survey on enabling technologies, protocols, and applications
Slm-transform: A method for memory-efficient indexing of spectra for database search in lc-ms/ms proteomics
Optimized CNN-based diagnosis system to detect the pneumonia from chest radiographs
NGS‐Integrator: A Tool for Combining Information from Multiple Genome‐Wide NGS Data Tracks Using Minimum Bayes Factors
LBE: A Computational Load Balancing Algorithm for Speeding up Parallel Peptide Search in Mass-Spectrometry based Proteomics
GPU-SFFT: A GPU based parallel algorithm for computing the Sparse Fast Fourier Transform (SFFT) of k-sparse signals
GPU-DFC: A GPU-based parallel algorithm for computing dynamic-functional connectivity of big fMRI data
Efficient shared peak counting in database peptide search using compact data structure for fragment-ion index
Auto-ASD-Network: A technique based on Deep Learning and Support Vector Machines for diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder using fMRI data
ASD-DiagNet: A hybrid learning approach for detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder using fMRI data
2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)
Towards quantifying psychiatric diagnosis using machine learning algorithms and big fMRI data
Similarity based classification of ADHD using Singular Value Decomposition
Parallel sampling-pipeline for indefinite stream of heterogeneous graphs using OpenCL for FPGAs
MaSS‐Simulator: A Highly Configurable Simulator for Generating MS/MS Datasets for Benchmarking of Proteomics Algorithms
GPU-DAEMON: GPU algorithm design, data management & optimization template for array based big omics data
Fast-GPU-PCC: A GPU-Based Technique to Compute Pairwise Pearson’s Correlation Coefficients for Time Series Data - An fMRI Study
A Fourier-Based Data Minimization Algorithm for Fast and Secure Transfer of Big Genomic Datasets
A deep learning-based data minimization algorithm for fast and secure transfer of big genomic datasets
Scalable data structure to compress next-generation sequencing files and its application to compressive genomics
Power-Efficient and Highly Scalable Parallel Graph Sampling using FPGAs
GPU-PCC: A GPU Based Technique to Compute Pairwise Pearson's Correlation Coefficients for Big fMRI Data
An out-of-core gpu based dimensionality reduction algorithm for big mass spectrometry data and its application in bottom-up proteomics
A new cryptography algorithm to protect cloud-based healthcare services
A Hybrid MPI-OpenMP Strategy to Speedup the Compression of Big Next-Generation Sequencing Datasets
Systems-level analysis reveals selective regulation of Aqp2 gene expression by vasopressin
Reductive Analytics on Big MS Data leads to tremendous reduction in time for peptide deduction
MS-REDUCE: an ultrafast technique for reduction of big mass spectrometry data for high-throughput processing
Introduction to the selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB 2015)
GPU-ArraySort: A parallel, in-place algorithm for sorting large number of arrays
Data Aware Communication for Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks
A variable-length network encoding protocol for big genomic data
A Parallel Peptide Indexer and Decoy Generator for Crux Tide using OpenMP
On the sampling of big mass spectrometry data
Design and implementation of network transfer protocol for big genomic data
Big data proteogenomics and high performance computing: Challenges and opportunities
Autophagic degradation of aquaporin-2 is an early event in hypokalemia-induced nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
A parallel algorithm for compression of big next-generation sequencing datasets
Global analysis of the effects of the V2 receptor antagonist satavaptan on protein phosphorylation in collecting duct
Foreword to the special issue on selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB 2014).
Exploiting thread-level and instruction-level parallelism to cluster mass spectrometry data using multicore architectures
Cams-rs: clustering algorithm for large-scale mass spectrometry data using restricted search space and intelligent random sampling
A knowledge base of vasopressin actions in the kidney
6th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB 2014)
Quantitative phosphoproteomics implicates clusters of proteins involved in cell‐cell adhesion and transcriptional regulation in the vasopressin signaling network
Proteome-wide measurement of protein half-lives and translation rates in vasopressin-sensitive collecting duct cells
PhosSA: Fast and accurate phosphorylation site assignment algorithm for mass spectrometry data
Foreword to the special issue on selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB 2013)
A high performance algorithm for clustering of large-scale protein mass spectrometry data using multi-core architectures
A Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Phosphorylation Site Assignment of Protein Mass Spectrometry Data
Quantitative phosphoproteomics in nuclei of vasopressin-sensitive renal collecting duct cells
Proteomic and Metabolomic Approaches to Cell Physiology and Pathophysiology: Quantitative phosphoproteomics in nuclei of vasopressin-sensitive renal collecting duct cells
NHLBI-AbDesigner: an online tool for design of peptide-directed antibodies
Identifying protein kinase target preferences using mass spectrometry
High performance phosphorylation site assignment algorithm for mass spectrometry data using multicore systems
Dynamics of the G protein-coupled vasopressin V2 receptor signaling network revealed by quantitative phosphoproteomics
CP hos: a program to calculate and visualize evolutionarily conserved functional phosphorylation sites
An efficient dynamic programming algorithm for phosphorylation site assignment of large-scale mass spectrometry data
An efficient algorithm for clustering of large-scale mass spectrometry data
A high performance multiple sequence alignment system for pyrosequencing reads from multiple reference genomes
Mining temporal patterns from iTRAQ mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) data
Mapping‐based temporal pattern mining algorithm (MTPMA) identifies unique clusters of phosphopeptides regulated by vasopressin in collecting duct
Large‐scale iTRAQ‐based quantification of phosphorylation changes during vasopressin signaling
Parallel Algorithm for Center Star Sequence and Alignments with Applications to Short Reads
High performance computational biology algorithms
A graph-theoretic framework for efficient computation of HMM based motif finder
Pyro-align: Sample-align based multiple alignment system for pyrosequencing reads of large number
Multiple sequence alignment system for pyrosequencing reads
An Overview of Multiple Sequence Alignment Systems
A domain decomposition strategy for alignment of multiple biological sequences on multiprocessor platforms
Sample-align-d: A high performance multiple sequence alignment system using phylogenetic sampling and domain decomposition
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